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Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Huawei eSpace 7900 IP Phone

  • SA No:Huawei-SA-20151111-01-eSpace
  • Initial Release Date: Nov 11, 2015
  • Last Release Date: Nov 19, 2015

The Huawei eSpace 7900 IP phone cannot process some type of requests. If an intermediary device is not properly configured, such requests will be transparently sent to the eSpace 7900 phone. After receiving such requests, the phone restarts (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-08038).

 

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8231.

 

Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-461213.htm

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

eSpace 7910

V200R002C00SPC100

V200R002C00SPC800

V200R002C00SPC101

V200R002C00SPC300

V200R002C00SPC600

V200R002C00SPC700

eSpace 7950

V200R002C00SPC100

V200R002C00SPC800

V200R002C00SPC101

V200R002C00SPC300

V200R002C00SPC600

V200R002C00SPC700

The attacker could send the phone packets that cannot be processed by the phone to restart it.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Temporal Score: 3.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

The attacker has established a session with the target phone and an intermediary device is improperly configured.

2. Attacking procedure:

The attacker sends the phone packets that cannot be processed by the phone to restart it, affecting the availability of the phone.
Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/report-vulnerabilities/index.htm.


This vulnerability was found by Huawei internal tester. Huawei PSIRT is not aware of malicious use of the vulnerability described in this advisory.

For security problems about Huawei products and solutions, please contactPSIRT@huawei.com.

For general problems about Huawei products and solutions, please directly contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the configuration or technical assistance.


2015-11-19 V1.1 UPDATED Added CVE ID.

2015-11-11 V1.0 INITIAL
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